cosmographical
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In the past, most cosmographical theories were concocted by mathematicians sitting in quiet rooms and struggling with streams of abstractions.
From Time Magazine Archive
All arrive at the same dangerous gates and passes, the same seductive lakes and gardens; for the magical machinery of the romance was more important to the poet's scheme than cosmographical conditions.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington
The Arabians adopted not only the ideas of the ancients, but also the fundamental notions of the cosmographical system of the Greeks.
From Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens by Blake, John F.
The cosmographical description forms the last three pages of the letter.
From The Voyage of Verrazzano A Chapter in the Early History of Maritime Discovery in America by Murphy, Henry Cruse
The labors of Kepler were mathematical, optical, cosmographical, and astronomical,—but chiefly astronomical.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 by Various
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